Do I believe that when the churchs unite (and note I say WHEN not IF), you shoudl become a Latin rite just because you live in the West? NO. Should a Catholic in the Ukraine become Orthodox? NO. Let people choose the rite as long as the dogma, the teachings are the same
"Do I believe that when the churchs unite (and note I say WHEN not IF), you shoudl become a Latin rite just because you live in the West? NO. Should a Catholic in the Ukraine become Orthodox? NO. Let people choose the rite as long as the dogma, the teachings are the same"
Here in America we have a number of Orthodox Jurisdictions. This has given rise to a non-canonical situation in which there can be more than one bishop for Orthodox people in a given city or area. Canonically, there should be only one. The Pope is the Patriarch of the West and thus in a pre schism Church, everyone in the West would have been under the Pope's men in Latin rite Churches. Now we Orthodox, by reason of immigration into America, are in a non-canonical situation. I mentioned the point since in a Church made up of all of us, the canons would seem to require that I be a Latin. I realize of course that the canons could be changed.